What is your SINGLE greatest concern about Bush regaining the White House?

[JudyM]

[Arkana]

1. I voted for the Iraq one

but personally, I think there should be an "All of the above" option. I hate those Bush SOBs.

[JudyM]

9. Wouldn't we all choose 'all of the above' if given the choice?

Really trying to get a sense of which is of greatest concern... with me, it's the environment, even though everything else has me climbing the walls, too.
x(

[Anakin Skywalker]

71. Hell Yeah!

I would like a "All of the Above" choice.

[ewagner]

2. I think civil rights

equality/privacy because those are the items which have to be repressed in order for Repubs/fundies/Conservatives to maintain control of power.

[itzamirakul]

22. Me Too, but I wanted to choose All of the Above...

I am nearly as concerned about Iraq, our economy, and all the other topics equally. Forced to choose, I found that Civil Rights edged out the others by just a nudge.

[Ladyhawk]

53. I chose this one although health care / disability are imporant to me...

...on a personal level.

[jjanpundt]

3. Should there be a section

all of the above?

[mth44sc]

4. Supreme Court Appointments

those are gonna haunt this country LONG after w is gone...

[Sugarcoated]

6. I'm worried about everything on that list

[HysteryDiagnosis]

7. Corruption of the election system... and then the resultant No one having

any faith in it anymore. You simply cannot have that and have a country hold together.

[kick-ass-bob]

20. I think both the Supreme Ct and elections fall under 'equality/ civil

rights.

Elections are based on votes being equal and the Court has control of 'rights of people'.

[JudyM]

12. That is a killer

Because of lack of checks and balances/corruption or for specific issue, e.g. environment?

[Hamlette]

19. agreed....supreme court could blast us back 50 years

[Vincardog]

31. HE wants to appoint 'Strict Constructionists" read American Taliban

SCARRY

[Dulcinea]

39. That's what worries me the most.

Right-wing activist judges.

[incapsulated]

54. Damn Straight

Even if we ever take this country back from these fascists, those Judges are there for LIFE.

:cry:

[Ms. Toad]

69. ditto

but it's a lot more than civil rights and equality. (Those are some of the decisions I am most concerned about - but not the only ones.)

[R3dD0g]

5. Gawd, I can't choose only one.

Every one of the choices is a legitimate concern. All are terrible of themselves.

I choose all, culminating in the destruction of America as history has known us.

[Justpat]

8. All of the above

[Paradise]

10. ALL of the above!!! n/t

[mhr]

11. All Of The Above - I Have Been Unemployed Now For 53 Months

My American life, My American dream is over because of Mr. Bush and his policies.

I am a substantial person, two college degrees (BSEE, MBA), Commercial Pilot, Honorably Discharged Naval Officer, etc.

Yet, I have no future here. At the age of 47, I am wiped out financially and do not have enough time left to start over.

Mr. Bush and his policies have killed me with a long slow lingering death. His only prescription for me is Junior College courses like "Flipping Burgers With Style."

I will not give him the pleasure of killing me with my own suicide.

Instead, I will spend the last days of my breath killing him by killing his character.

[JudyM]

13. Whew! That is rough.

I'm 45, 2 degrees also and unemployed, too, but still have hope re: employment. hang in there!

[juliagoolia]

I got ya there.

I HOPE and PRAY my job hangs on.
I'm 48 and have 18 years in as a computer engineer.
My husband a programmer lost his job to some place in India.

If..and when my job ends, and more than likely it will I will be in the same position. There is no way to replace my job, and my husband has not been able to replace his. He has gone from programmer to front desk guy at the Hilton!

I bet, like me everytime * mentions retraining and NCLB you just about want to scream your guts out! I have elderly parents to care for too.

We have done our part, and are doing our part and this *hole made it harder and harder every time we turn around just to eeek out a descent lifestyle for us and our family.

Hang in there guy, things will get better somehow some way. Hubby trying to start a business now. Geeeeeeeeesh.. but we already went bankrupt so we could keep the house with the old folks in it! No loans for us!

Isn't life full of fun!

[Laelth]

14. Um, fascism?

That about sums it up for me.

:scared:

-Laelth

[JudyM]

17. Agreed - civil rights

[TahitiNut]

15. A "sweatshop" world - the 'ownership society' - a tyranny of privilege

It's about "The Man"!

Absolutely every item is subordinate to and a consequence of the unbounded privilege of increasingly narrow wealth and power.

At no time in the last 50 years (or longer) has labor received a smaller share of the wealth they create. At no time in the last 50 years has 'ownership' carried a lighter burden and collected a larger share of the wealth created by labor. At no time in history has the power of wealth had such a total global reach.

Even the Pottery Barn precept of "you broke it you own it" plays into the hands of the entitled - they want to "own" Iraq.

[Christiana]

16. Education

No Child Left Behind is a scam that is meant to force public schools to fail.

Once schools fail we can move to vouchers and parents can send their kids free of charge to whatever private school they want (most Bush supporters will choose a Christian school, certainly).

Without public education, education is no longer a right, and we can stop paying for those poor minorities in our ghettos to get an education... they won't be able to afford the $20,000 private school when the voucher only overs the first $10,000.

[aden_nak]

18. I don't see "Permanent Installment of PNAC in the White House" up there.

[Cat Atomic]

21. It upsets me because it means one of these two things is true:

Either

1) A majority of this country at least tacitly supports imperialism, the police state, and all the rest of the Bush agenda or

2) The elections have been rigged and democracy is now dead in the US

[JudyM]

48. Even if not a majority, still frightening -- almost seems like fiction

[Sara Beverley]

23. I fear the take over of our country by the neo-con-PNACers with devastatin

results for all of us. Wars without end and terroist attacks without end. Paranoid and hate children being raised in a once socially conscience nation that at least "pretended" to be good. Now we don't even pretend!

[Bucky]

25. Sara, I believe they already have taken over

Once Powell is gone, they'll be riding the Segway without training wheels.

[Bucky]

24. I voted "corruption", but a far bigger (if only potential) threat is in...

The danger of a major military confrontation over Iraq, if somehow Iran gets further into the mess carries several layers of danger with it. Iran has been a thorn in our side for years. Clinton kept them contained, but Bush's crew fell flat into Iran's trap in Iraq and knocked over their top enemy for them.

Now that Bush has finally figured out who the real enemy is, the threat of a real war with a real enemy is one facet of our growing dangers. But Iran knows that in a direct confrontation in the long run, we'd kick their asses seven ways to Ramadan. So they probably will avoid a direct show down.

Instead they'll keep on doing wahat they've been doing: clandestinely encouraging terrorism. And again, because of the blunder in Iraq, world terrorist networks now have a HUGE recruiting pool of potential "martyrs" willing to fuck us up any which way they can. This is the textbook definition of destablizing. This is why war should be the last option and containment was the right policy.

[m berst]

26. The Death of Freedom

It is clear and obvious that we are witnessing a coup d'etat. That trumps all other concerns.

[JudyM]

57. It'd help if the media reported on it.

[skygazer]

27. I simply can't choose only one

They all go together and the reason this election was so crucial and mobilized so many people who'd never gotten involved before is because they are all critical. If there were only one glaring thing on that list, I would not be so fearful about my country's future - but they are all serious threats.

[banana republican]

28. NUKES IN THE CITY n/t

[WoodrowFan]

29. EVERYTHING!

[weezielove]

30. iraq, then civil liberties

[DireStrike]

32. All the wealth of the nation being sucked through corporations to a Few.

These people don't care about countries. They'll suck us dry and then move on and invade some other bustling economy.

[yardwork]

33. I chose the environment because without Mother Earth

we got nothing, Charlie.

[JudyM]

63. check this out

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=969391&mesg_id=969391

[Poiuyt]

34. Supreme Court

If he is able to appoint multiple justices, it could affect the country for generations.

[sunnystarr]

35. I'm with you on this one. (nt)

[donheld]

73. this is my choice

however all of those listed in the poll are pretty scary in Bushies hands

[ramapo]

36. An impossible choice

I voted environment/energy. We've already blown 30+ years on this one and we're beginning to "reap the rewards" of our folly. Another four years just puts us in worse shape.

The economy/deficit is right behind. Funny how the Democrats have become the party of fiscal sanity. Tax and spend might've been bad but spend and spend and spend on the credit card is much worse...hey deficits don't matter so why worry.

Health care and education also close behind. What a friggin mess this is.

Iraq and our new imperialism...right up there.

And I can't leave out the fact that I just can't stand the whole bunch of them especially the smirking arrogant "Chairman".

[JudyM]

45. Yeah, envt important - especially with today's news

about the acceleration of global warming coupled with Bush's advisor saying - same day - that global warming is all but fictitious. Egad.

[The Jacobin]

37. Environment / energy

Democrats have been just as willing to attack third world countries as the repugs. Kerry even said he would try to "win" in Iraq. I have no doubt that if there was another terrorist attack in a Kerry administration, he would be stampeeded into attacking another country.

The real difference is the environmental legacy. The damage is incalculable.

[JudyM]

43. That's my #1, too, with civil rights close behind.

[LittleClarkie]

38. Voted Iraq but

I'm concerned Bush is calling "mandate" and pushing DOMA and going after Roe vs Wade, more war and all the rest. The "emboldened Bush" I've been hearing about scares me to death.

[burrowowl]

40. All of the above

The A$$ is a frigging disater on all fronts.

[intheflow]

41. Other. Add 'em all up

and it amounts to fascism.

[JudyM]

47. Loud and clear.

[Indiana_Dem]

42. I can't decide--too many issues...

I don't like the way the administration has chosen the bad route for energy for our future children. I also don't like the privatization of the Social Security or the Healthcare. Those 3 things are devastating enough without the fact that no corporate loopholes will be closed which would slow the emmigration of our jobs to other countries. All of them are important as is civil rights and separation of church and state. We are also more vulnerable to attack now, I feel.

[anakie]

44. His having control of the nuclear trigger

n/t

[AmandaRuth]

46. i didn't read thru all the messages,

but reproductive rights, scotus and separate of church and state.

The religious right means business. Other than the safety and welfare of our soldiers and the citizens of Iraq, i couldn't care less about his war. Its not going to stop or even slow down terra anyway.

[Eric J in MN]

49. I chose national security. The Bush Admin. is too incompetent

to protect us.

They haven't captured Usama bin Laden or Mullah Omar (former leader of Afghanistan) and both would like to attack us worse than on 9/11/2001.

[JudyM]

58. oh no didn't you hear he's going to make us more safe?

[OnionPatch]

50. Environment

I just read today that the arctic is melting at an even faster rate. As much as I care about the suffering that's going on right now, I fear it may be nothing compared to what will happen when the Earth's environmental stability reaches the point of no return.

[JudyM]

51. .. and today Bush's administration reiterated its disinterest

in global warming and intention to drill in the Arctic Natl Wildlife Refuge. Poetic timing, but that was missed on the evening news. Though it was heartening that they at least covered the Arctic briefly. We have to really stand together on this. kills me that kerry didn't ein - he was pumped up about alternative energy development. I'd like to photoshop an image of bush dripping in oil.

[Ladyhawk]

52. Way too many choices, man.

He has so screwed us.

[JudyM]

56. Hey, this is the SHORT list!

[sangh0]

55. Other - Civil disorders, demagaugary, mobs, etc

.

[AnnitaR]

59. Supreme Court!

We are going to be fucked for a long damn time!

[Wols]

65. Supreme Court is mine as well

We could be looking at another 20 years of a right wing judiciary. That is depressing.

[m berst]

60. The death of the United States

A totalitarian police state that will destroy the US Constitution and lead the country to destruction and ruin. Slavery and torture, secret police, endless war, economic depression and the end of freedom.

[PatriotGames]

61. How about the end of the world?

[JudyM]

62. that would be a realistic choice, unfortunately

[salin]

64. complete erosion of the 'safety net' with such huge debt

that no tax hike would be big enough to deal with both the debt and repairing the safety net (and the infrastructure) of the country. I fear corporate pillaging of our society - with a possible emergence of a third world type social and economic structure... IF the republicans truly have a lock on all branches of government for a prolonged period of time. I fear that the damage they inflict is too deep to be reversed. Has a country ever gone from prosperous to having a large peasant class? As this appears to be the desired economic direction being promoted from 1600...

[212demop]

66. As s New Yorker my immediate reaction was terror

He is so reckless, he has so enraged the entire world, and so completely failed to safeguard our ports, planes, nuclear facilities, hell, our entire infrastructure, I am terrified that we'll be hit again in New York. It's the first thing I think of every morning when I wake up and put on the news. And with his stupid mandate and capital, he feels no accountability to the 9/11 commission, to act on their recommendations, to fix the CIA, the FBI or do anything else.

And believe me- after our next 9/11 there will be no Le Monde headlines declaring "Today we are all Americans." Next time no one will give a shit. They'll probably think we deserve it.

[JudyM]

67. I can only imagine the intensity of that helplessness you feel.

We really need to rise up in a public way - so that the world gets that this is not a mandate.

[212demop]

76. That's it exactly- total helplessness

And this frustration because I heard this guy (Kerry) talking about spending money on things that would actually help me sleep at night, and I got my hopes up. I just don't understand this argument that Bush got the terror vote (of course he didn't get it in places that were actually hit). People who voted for him because they thought he could keep them safer-- I don't think they know what it feels like to really feel unsafe on a visceral level or they would have cast their votes for Kerry. He was going to direct money fortify us here at home. That's so essential. Why didn't the republicans get that?

We woke up on a beautiful day and the world as we knew it had fundamentally changed. I wake up every day still and wonder if it's happening again. People say 9/11 is yesterday's news, but it's not to me, and I don't think I'm alone.

[bemildred]

68. Other: it was stolen for him. nt

[Zinfandel]

70. Supreme Court. Which will affect our civil rights, environment, etc...

[ElsewheresDaughter]

72. all the death, all the hatred, all the death, all the death, oh and.......

did i mention ,ALL THE DEATH!

[ibegurpard]

74. Emerging police state.

eom

[davekriss]

75. ALL OF THE ABOVE (n/t)